Achievements

Joshua Frye

Communication

Joshua Frye, Associate Professor of Communication, recently published a peer-reviewed academic journal article in the "Journal of Social Justice." The article, entitled, “Re-conceptualizing the Global Fair Trade Movement” examines the fair trade movement using structuration theory and inductive rhetorical analysis. The essay argues that the global fair trade movement is unique in the pursuit of sustainability and social justice within the food system. As such, it reveals communication reflexivity as potentially a collective process of transformation and is reshaping the values and conditions for labor equity and environmental sustainability through a new market paradigm of partnership.

Michael S. Bruner

Communication

Michael S. Bruner, Professor, Department of Communication, had his book review of "WORD OF MOUTH: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food," by sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, published in "Food, Culture, and Society," online 18 February 2016.

Hunter Fine

Communication

Published a chapter in a book titled “Postmodern Theory and Hip-Hop Cultural Discourse.” Ed. Kathleen Roberts. Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture: Essays and Applications. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) will be conducting their fourth Assignment Charrette on Saturday, February 20, 2016 in New Orleans, La. Dr. Armeda Reitzel is one of the faculty members selected to participate in this event. She will engage in a collaborative assignment-design process with 40 or so faculty members chosen from across the country and from a myriad of disciplines.

Laura K. Hahn

Communication

Laura K. Hahn presented her research project, "Culinary Immigration through the Streets of New York: The Immigrant Narrative on New York City Food Tours" at the the International Conference on Food Design. This research was sponsored by the the CSU Chancellor’s Office Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities (RSCA) program.

Michael S. Bruner, Brittany Stuckey

Communication

Michael S. Bruner, Professor, Communication, and Brittany N. Stuckey, 2014 CAHSS Research Fellow, published their article, "The World Will Little Note: Vice President Joe Biden's 2012 Speech at the Flight 93 National Memorial," in the Pennsylvania Communication Annual (Vol. 71, 2015). The article is dedicated to Richard Guadagno, former Refuge Manager at the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, who died on Flight 93.

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Dr. Armeda Reitzel gave a paper presentation on “The Evolution of Neckwear: How a Piece of Cloth Speaks Volumes” at the 2015 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Cincinnati on Oct. 3, 2015.

She also presented a co-authored paper with two of her Communication students, Diana Casteel and Kristine Cella, at the same conference on Oct. 2,2015. The title of that research paper was “Adventure vs. Domesticity: How Children’s Toys Promote Gender Roles.”

Joshua J. Frye

Communication

Dr. Joshua Frye and Dr. Rebekah Fox (Texas State University at San Marcos) recently published "The Rhetorical Construction of Food Waste in US Public Discourse" in the interdisciplinary journal _Food Studies_, volume 5, issue 4. The article examines how the issue of food waste is being rhetorically framed by different sources and voices within the context of public communication in the United States.

Dr. Michael S. Bruner

Communication

Communication Professor Dr. Michael S. Bruner had his article, “Fat Politics: A Comparative Study,” published in M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2015). Drawing upon popular magazines, newspapers, blogs, Web sites, and videos, this essay compares the media framing in public discourse of six, “fat” political figures from around the world. The analysis begins with public discourse surrounding William Howard Taft, the 330 pound, twenty-seventh President of the United States. The article explores the medicalization of “fat” and phenomena such as “fat shaming.” The final section helps readers take a more critical perspective on fat politics.

Dr. Michael S. Bruner and Ms. Brittany N. Stuckey

Communication

Communication Professor Michael Bruner presented the paper, "Methods for Accounting for the Reception of Food-Related Images," at the Joint 2015 Annual Meetings and Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 24-28, 2015. The paper was co-authored by Brittany N. Stuckey, an Undergraduate Research Fellow in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.